Sentences with phrase «for small farms»

Although the beginning of the story has that «those poor misguided locavores are so wrong» feel to it, she's right about the distribution system for small farms.

An additional disconnect between for small farms and big wholesalers is one of storage time.

Also consider for rainwater collection for small farms that uses rock cisterns, pits lined with clays, graded gravel to ballast rock and capped with clays to reduce evaporation; these don't need concrete & steel, ballast rock is 40 % voids for capacity.

Prior to the lake filling up when the dam was completed 60 years ago what's now the lake bottom was mostly Mountain Juniper and Oak trees with a some a bit of cleared area nearer the original river and stream channels used for small farms.

The goal, according to Solomon, is to create technologies across all scales, from a biochar - producing cookstove for sustenance farmers to mid-level, industrial pyrolyzers to make biochar for small farms or commercial fertilizers.

The study by Seo and Mendelsohn (2006a) further shows that higher temperatures are beneficial for small farms that keep goats and sheep because it is easy to substitute animals that are heat - tolerant.

I've found that even if they aren't USDA certified organic (not always cost effective for small farms), they don't tend to use chemicals or pesticides as much.

The Scoop: Joel was famously chronicled in Michael Pollan's Omnivore's Dilemma and is a well known advocate for small farms, biodynamic farming and local food systems.

They help local small family famers by buying cattle their cattle that are raised the same way to make beef sticks and provide steady income for the small farms.

I sip the sweet, milky chai he's served me in a blue tin cup and I let myself catch his enthusiasm for a small farm, a source of income that might fund his children's education.

The discrepancy was largest for the smaller farms, partly because they had higher labor costs and lower yields from using more pasture for feed.

«Getting an organic label on your farm [can be too expensive and complicated] for a small farm.»

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After shaving his beard and cutting off his ponytail, Dusty heads for the small farm town where he grew up, visiting his wise old grandmother (Molly McClure) and ending up at the ranch of the Tucker family, where nobody recognizes him.

Mobile Milktank 1100L, perfect for your small farm in the mountains.

I think that I was just making a distinction that I don't have delusions about buying 10 acres and immediately making profit I meant «hobby farm» just as a synonym for small farm

A family recently got a Border Collie puppy for their small farm.

We are looking for a small farm right now to start remodeling for our retirement nest, have made 4 trips so far and going again in Nov..

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It's a victory for Vermont's small food and farm agricultural renaissance, and it's a victory for Vermont.»

For the past 10 years, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has focused on bringing an end to the confinement of farm animals, mainly pigs and young cows (future veal) who are kept in crates without room to turn around, and the egg - laying hens kept in cages too small to spread their wings.

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TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the small South West seaside resort of Bremer Bay — recently hard hit by the closure of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.

«We have three buildings on our property: a large house we live in, a small guesthouse that we started out in, and a farm building for our equipment.

For example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low pricFor example, 45 years ago here in Saskatchewan, pulses such as lentils and peas were a small part of the province's farm economy.9 In the 1970s, however, researchers at the University of Saskatchewan began searching for a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low pricfor a protein crop to complement wheat, which was suffering from an oversupply and low prices.

We began planning for this reduction (and also SS taking a hit) decades ago by pouring a lot of money into our small farm.

· Trump's plan would replace the estate tax with a capital gains tax on the appreciation of inherited assets of more than $ 5 million of gains per decedent or $ 10 million per married couple, subject to some exemptions for small businesses and family farms

Family farms, restaurants, other food businesses and the rural economy will suffer under federal tax proposals for small businesses,

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras visits the holiday island in northern Greece on Monday, Sept. 12, 2016 where a state of emergency has been declared as a forest fire burns out of control for a third day, gutting homes and small farms.

In this photo taken July 18, 2014, Elaine Talicska and Tom VanOchten sort potatoes as they roll down to fill 10 - pound bags for small markets at the VanOchten farm, in Hampton Township, Mich..

The demand for beef, pork and chicken raised on smaller farms closer to home is growing.

When I was a kid I did my farm chores and got an allowance from my dad for helping and depending on the year it might have been pretty small.

We will be asked to end estate taxes in the name of saving small businesses and family farms, even though the Tax Policy Center estimates that such businesses account for only fifteen hundredths of 1 percent of all estate tax revenue.

One small example of this in our neighborhood is the urban farm one of my friends and mentors started to provide jobs to «returning citizens»: It required the city to help give away land and clear vacant property and some startup capital from a local farming company, but it is based on the church's understanding of the needs of the people and explicitly tied to the concept that faithful believers can help disciple and encourage people who have been incarcerated for harming others, walking them through the transformative process.

For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2For example, we should stop «hunting for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for sport or furs; farming minks, foxes and other animals for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for their fur; capturing wild animals (often after shooting their mothers) and imprisoning them in small cages for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for humans to stare at; tormenting animals to make them learn tricks for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 2for circuses, and tormenting them to make them entertain the folks at rodeos; slaughtering whales with explosive harpoons; and generally ignoring the interests of wild animals as we extend our empire of concrete and pollution over the surface of the globe» (ALNE 23).

Today, though, it is ironic that most of the concern for not only natural preservation but related (and arguably more relevant) issues like sustainable farming or small - scale economics are dismissed as the province of Vermont vegans.

Government policies should favor much smaller farms worked by owners who care for the land.

There were a lot of Sikhs who supported him and his idealogies and wanted their own state because they believed that land was theirs, they farmed and lived on it for centuries and provided the majority of Indias food with a small area.

Lauck argues that the farm and small town culture of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century encouraged a sense of responsibility for the common good.

Today, land issues are central in the struggle for justice in South Africa, in other parts of the continents, small farms are giving way to commercialized plantations that take away land without providing employment.

But for the most part their influence is small in the organizations — political parties, labor unions, manufacturers» associations, farm groups — which are most effective in determining the direction of community affairs.

It also guarantees within its constitution a role for cooperatives; joint state and private enterprises; small, medium, and large private farms and businesses; indigenous communal ownership; and a state sector.

For generations the Israelites clung, as it were, by their eyebrows to a small section of the hill country of Ephraim amid bitter enemies — Ammonites and Moabites, to the east; the Philistines invading the seacoast lands to the west; the Amorites still possessing a score of strong towns and the farm lands around them.

My candidate for a «prophet to the liberals» is Will Campbell, publisher of the journal Katallagete and author of the highly acclaimed Brother to a Dragonfly, an autobiographical book about the lives of Will and his brother, Joe, as they leave their father's small cotton farm in Mississippi — Will to become a civil rights worker for the National Council of Churches, Joe to become a small - town pharmacist.

The farm also has a small experimental orchard and research plots for grain, dry land vegetables, berries, and root crops, and a beautiful home which he helped his father build with a stunning view of the Bears Paw Mountains.

By Mary Mesenburg, Door to Door Organics Not only does food grown on a nearby farm leave a smaller carbon footprint and support the local economy, but I believe it also tastes better and is better for you than food... Continued

While the Government has retained thresholds that enable an exemption from the requirement for development consent — for those farms with less than 1000 birds or 200 pigs or 20 sows — the introduction of a 500m setback from neighbouring dwellings or environmentally sensitive areas that triggers a Development Application is a major barrier for pastured pig and poultry farming on small acreages.

Cameron Mynott of Australian Pasture Fresh says, «it is imperative for the future of sustainable, ethical, regenerative farming, that small - scale farmers be able to run under a common - sense, outcomes - based legislation.

The AIAC called for the scheme to recognise the lower risk small - scale pastured pig and poultry farms pose, and for planning controls to be commensurate with that risk.

Your membership will add your voice to the many others standing up for small - scale farming.

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